Pelosi in the House (2022) Movie Script

(FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)
ALEXANDRA PELOSI:
For my entire adult life,
I have been two steps behind you
with this camera,
trying to keep up with you.
Mom, do you realize that?
You walk at a pace.
(NANCY PELOSI LAUGHS)
ALEXANDRA:
Hard to keep up with you.
PELOSI: I am a workhorse,
not a show horse.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN BURGER:
Raise your right hand
and repeat after me.
I, Ronald Reagan,
do solemnly swear.
RONALD REAGAN: I, Ronald Reagan,
do solemnly swear.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH:
I, George Herbert Walker Bush,
do solemnly swear.
BILL CLINTON:
I, William Jefferson Clinton,
do solemnly swear.
GEORGE W. BUSH:
I, George Walker Bush,
do solemnly swear.
CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS:
I, Barack Hussein Obama.
BARACK OBAMA:
I, Barack Hussein Obama,
do solemnly swear.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
That I will execute
the Office of President
of the United States.
I, Donald John Trump,
do solemnly swear.
DONALD TRUMP:
I, Donald John Trump,
do solemnly swear.
That I will faithfully execute.
TRUMP:
That I will faithfully execute.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
The Office of President
of the United States.
The Office of President
of the United States.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And will
to the best of my ability.
And will to the best
of my ability.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
Preserve, protect, and defend.
Preserve, protect, and defend.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
The Constitution
of the United States.
The Constitution
of the United States.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
So help me God.
So help me God.
(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Follow me this way.
Please follow me this way.
ALEXANDRA:
Oh, I am. I really would love
to get a picture
with her daughter, actually.
I hear she has a daughter.
STAFFER: Wonderful.
Wait, I want to--
ALEXANDRA:
And you are?
PELOSI: The State of the Union.
I'm going to call
the House to order.
I hope that it stays in order.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
If it doesn't stay in order,
I'll call it to order again.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
Anyway, just think
in a positive way,
then every moment takes us
closer to the next election.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
(CONGRESS MEMBERS APPLAUDING
OVER TELEVISION)
COMMENTATOR: And he's
about to walk up there, Jake.
We're about to see
the first interaction
with the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
It's going to be interesting
to watch the body language,
what they say to each other.
We'll listen very,
very carefully.
Members of Congress,
the state of our union
is strong.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
CONGRESS MEMBERS: USA, USA, USA.
USA, USA, USA.
And the only thing
that can stop it
are foolish wars, politics,
or ridiculous
partisan investigations.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
TRUMP: But we must reject
the politics of revenge,
resistance, and retribution,
and embrace the boundless
potential of cooperation,
compromise, and the common good.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
There's so much crap
in his speech.
He lied so much,
-and he fear-mongered so much.
-STAFFER: Yes.
I mean, I wish
I were free to say
what I want to say about this,
because this is
a very dangerous man.
A very dangerous man.
He's hiding behind World War II,
the Holocaust,
children's cancer,
and all the rest...
-STAFFER: Right.
-...to get applause lines.
And by the way,
500 million dollars
over ten years
-for childhood cancer...
-STAFFER: A pittance.
Why don't I just give you
the change out of my sofa?
-STAFFER: Yeah.
-It is nothing.
-It was a very strange speech.
-STAFFER: It really was.
It was disgusting.
And then to stand in the well
of the House of Representatives
and say so many things happened,
abolitionists, slavery,
this or that.
"But don't think
you're going to exercise
your constitutional authority
of oversight
over the Executive Branch
in terms of the separation
of power." Was that a threat?
-STAFF: Yes.
-Absolutely.
Make my day.
(INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC
PLAYING)
ALEXANDRA: Okay Mom, here we go.
You've set up an epic battle.
The press are now saying
it's you against the president.
-GEORGE KUNDANIS:
(OVER PHONE) Morning.
-How are you, George?
Oh, super! Tell me
when you've heard enough.
I'll give you some
of the top stuff,
it's unbelievable.
ALEXANDRA: Look, it says,
"Dems celebrate Pelosi era
after State of the Union."
-STAFFER 1: Pelosi era.
-STAFFER 2: Literally.
-ALEXANDRA: It's the Pelosi era.
-STAFFER 2: Back at Trump.
STAFFER 3:
That didn't take long.
-PELOSI: He's looking.
-STAFFER 3:
He doesn't know what hit him.
Look at him. (LAUGHS)
(ALL LAUGHING)
STAFFER 2:
At the McDonald's summit.
-STAFFER: 3
Photoshopping gone mad.
-What has he got on? Oh, my God.
-STAFFER 2: Everywhere. Yes.
-PELOSI: That was terrible.
-(STAFFERS LAUGHING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALEXANDRA: I'm going
to rearrange your pictures
so that I get more prominent
display in this household.
Look at that,
it's me and my mommy.
PELOSI: It looks like
it's fading a little bit.
ALEXANDRA: Okay, I want you
to come sit down
and tell me your life story.
-Is this okay? Is this--
-ALEXANDRA:
I want to put you in these--
Look, I put the picture
of me and you there.
-Okay.
-ALEXANDRA:
So that all my siblings
can see I'm your favorite.
See? Look.
(PELOSI LAUGHS)
See how long my hair is?
(LAUGHS)
That was a hippie era,
long hair, purple jeans.
ALEXANDRA: Why'd, Mom--
Why did you choose this life?
I didn't really choose
this life. It chose me.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI:
I was born into politics.
That was the life that we led.
I was born into a family
that was devoutly Catholic,
proud of our Italian-American
heritage,
fiercely patriotic,
and staunchly Democratic.
When I was born,
my father was in Congress.
He was a New Deal Democrat
who worshiped at the shrine
of Franklin Roosevelt.
Then, when I was seven,
he became
the mayor of Baltimore.
And then
from first grade to college,
he was mayor.
So that was the only life
I really ever knew.
Every day was a campaign.
There was never an election
that we weren't involved in.
I learned from my father
that it was important to know
how to count.
You had to know how many votes
it takes to win.
My fellow citizens...
PELOSI: Eight years
after my father was mayor,
my brother, Tommy,
became mayor of Baltimore.
He taught me
how to own the ground,
that it was absolutely essential
to turn out the vote
in order to win the election.
ALEXANDRA: What was
Grandmom's role in all of this?
PELOSI: My mom ministered
to the needs of the poor
and she considered
public service
a very high calling.
She wanted me to be a nun...
but that didn't work out
for her.
ALEXANDRA: So then you met Dad
in college, got married,
had five kids in six years.
Then what?
PELOSI: Then I was a mom
for a very long time.
But I did have
some good organizational skills.
Years later
one of my friends said,
"I expected
she was going someplace
when I saw her having
those little children
fold and stack
their own laundry,
right out of the dryer."
ALEXANDRA: So when did you
go into politics?
PELOSI: Well, I was a volunteer
in politics. Then I became
the chair of
the California Democratic Party.
My hope is that this convention
will unite our party
and will lead us
to a better world.
And after that,
I was asked to run for Congress.
-(INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING)
-(CROWDS CHEERING)
HOUSE CLERK: According
to the official returns
of the special election,
the Honorable Nancy Pelosi
was elected
to the office
of United States Representative
in Congress from the Fifth
District of California.
PELOSI: My father came
to the floor when I won.
Do you solemnly swear
that you will support
and defend the Constitution
of the United States?
PELOSI: He passed away
about two months later.
So I was really very lucky.
...you are about to enter,
so help you God?
I do.
You are a member
of the House of Representatives.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
PELOSI: There had been many sons
who had followed
their fathers into Congress.
But here I was,
the first daughter
of a member of Congress
to serve.
I was born
when he was in Congress.
He made us all very proud
in our family,
and he also taught us
a tradition of public service,
a tradition of commitment
to making government
work for people.
And now we must take
the leadership, of course,
in the crisis of AIDS
and I look forward
to working with you on that.
WYCLEF JEAN:
Nancy Pelosi, come on
Nancy Pelosi, come on
Nancy Pelosi, come on...
PELOSI: I never asked anybody
to vote for me
because I was a woman.
But I certainly
did not want anybody
to vote against me
because I was a woman.
I think it's a plus
for the Democratic Party.
But if I didn't have
the credentials,
I wouldn't be having a majority
of the votes right now.
OFFICIAL:
The Chair announces that
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
Hi, Mr. President.
It was pretty big, yeah.
It was 23 votes, which is
a big, big margin, yeah.
In our House,
that's a big margin.
Thank you, bye-bye.
-Did I do--
-(ALEXANDRA LAUGHING)
Was that good, Mama?
WYCLEF JEAN: If you're feeling
Good out there
Let me hear you
Clap your hands, clap, clap
It's hot in here.
Are you hot?
STAFFER: How you doing?
WYCLEF JEAN: Tell them
Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi
My colleagues
just bestowed upon me
the great honor to be the leader
of the Democrats
in the House of Representatives.
ALEXANDRA:
Wasn't it great?
ALEXANDRA: Yes, congratulations,
Mom. I'm very proud of you.
WYCLEF JEAN:
Put your hands up, hands up!
Hands up, hands...
PELOSI: We can do it.
Working together, we will win
the House of Representatives
and elect the first
woman Speaker of the House.
WYCLEF JEAN: If you're feeling
Good out there
Let me hear you
Clap your hands, clap, clap
RAHM EMANUEL:
And she will soon make history
as the first female Speaker
of the United States
House of Representatives,
Nancy Pelosi!
WYCLEF JEAN:
It's crazy, baby
(CROWD CHEERING, WHISTLING)
JOHN BOEHNER:
It's now my privilege
to present the gavel
to the first woman Speaker
in our history,
the gentlelady from California,
Nancy Pelosi.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
REPORTER: Nancy Pelosi will be
the highest-ranking woman
to ever hold political office,
two heartbeats away
from the president.
This is an historic moment
for the Congress.
It's an historic moment
for the women of America.
It is a moment for which
we have waited over 200 years.
(CHEERING)
Let's hear it for the children.
We're here for the children.
For these children,
our children,
and for all
of America's children,
-the House will come to order.
-(GAVEL THUDDING)
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
-(CONGRESS MEMBERS APPLAUD)
BUSH: And tonight,
I have the high privilege
and distinct honor of my own
as the first president
to begin
the State of the Union message
with these words,
"Madam Speaker."
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
BUSH: In his day,
the late Congressman,
Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
from Baltimore, Maryland,
saw Presidents Roosevelt
and Truman at this rostrum.
But nothing could compare
with the sight
of his only daughter, Nancy,
presiding tonight as Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
(CHEERING)
PROTESTER: All right,
let's do a little chant.
What do we want?
PROTESTERS: Impeachment!
-PROTESTER
When do we want it?
-PROTESTERS: Now.
-PROTESTER: What do we want?
-PROTESTERS: Impeachment.
-PROTESTER:
When do we want it?
-PROTESTERS: Now.
-PROTESTER: What do we want?
-PROTESTERS: Impeachment.
ALEXANDRA: How am I supposed
to explain this to my son?
(PROTESTERS CONTINUE CHANTING)
ALEXANDRA: Why are there
all these war protesters
living outside our house?
PELOSI: When I became Speaker
there was a momentum
in the country
to impeach President Bush
for initiating the war.
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING)
And we're sleeping...
PELOSI: To me, the Iraq war
was one of the biggest mistakes
in our country's history.
I voted against the war,
spoke out against the war,
and yet these people
were outside my house,
protesting the war.
PROTESTER:
It's the press. Hello.
Hi, Sean. I'm in a die-in
over at Pelosi's house.
Does it bother you
that you guys are outside
of an empty house right now,
where Nancy isn't even here?
Well, last night
we met her husband.
-REPORTER: Where?
-PROTESTER:
He came out of the house.
(CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
-Would you care to join us?
-(CAR ALARM BEEPING)
No, thank you.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Impeach! Impeach!
PELOSI: I said
if they wanted to register
their opposition to the war,
they should do so at the polls.
But I was not going
to impeach the president.
AUDIENCE MEMBERS:
Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
(AUDIENCE CHEERS)
(AUDIENCE BOOS)
AUDIENCE MEMBER 1:
I'm going to vomit!
Who gave you the right
to take the Constitution
and shove it down the toilet?
Who gave you the right
to take impeachment
off the table?
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2:
That's what I just said!
(AUDIENCE CHEERS, APPLAUDS)
(INAUDIBLE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-ATTENDEE: So great.
-Thank you, bud.
PELOSI: This is my daughter,
Alexandra.
-Alexandra, yes. How are you?
-PELOSI: And her husband--
ALEXANDRA: How do you feel
about having a camera
shoved in your face?
Well, you know what?
When I'm with the Speaker
of the House,
I would have
a truck shoved in my face.
It doesn't matter.
I'm with the Speaker.
Thank you
for being here tonight.
-ATTENDEE: We want to change.
-We're going to make it happen.
ALEXANDRA: I have great news
for you.
Remember how I told you
I was making a movie?
-Yes.
-ALEXANDRA:
I'm putting you in it now.
Glad to be contributing
to this great work of art.
(ALEXANDRA LAUGHS)
OBAMA: This election
has never been about me.
It's about you!
Now is the time
to finally keep the promise
of affordable,
accessible healthcare
for every single American.
ALEXANDRA: So we finally have
a Democratic president
and a Democratic Congress,
and now you're going to try
and pass healthcare?
PELOSI: Yes.
For nearly 100 years,
there had been
an attempt to pass
affordable, quality healthcare.
Barack Obama becomes president,
we had a Democratic Congress,
House, and Senate,
an opportunity of a generation.
We were not going to fail.
REPORTER:
Thousands of demonstrators
and congressional Republicans
rallied at the Capitol
to voice their unhappiness
with the Democrats'
healthcare reform package.
This bill is the greatest threat
to freedom
that I have seen in the 19 years
I've been here in Washington.
(PROTESTORS CLAMOR)
(CHANTING) Kill the bill!
Kill the bill! Kill the bill!
(CHILDREN SQUEALING, GIGGLING)
(BABBLES INDISTINCTLY)
PELOSI:
WENDELL PRIMUS: The Speaker was
very masterful about rounding up
members who had difficulties
with the Affordable Care Act
for whatever reason.
She had to persuade
those members
kind of one by one that
they had to go on to the bill.
You do not take it
to the floor for debate
until you have
the votes locked up.
PELOSI:
There are no passes,
especially on something
as central to who we are
as Democrats.
No, but, I mean, this is it.
This is the defining moment
for the Democrats.
This is why we elect Democrats.
This is why we are here.
And you can't just be
on the taking end of it.
That's just the definition
of saying,
"I'm not on this team."
There has to be some giving,
especially on a vote like this.
I don't want to take up
any more of your time, okay?
Thank you. Bye-bye.
He said, "I hope you don't think
I'm just a taker."
You vote "no" and then
you expect to get something?
I was really critical.
You know, I start with a feather
and I'm nice, nice, nice.
And then that sledgehammer
comes out.
I can't even talk
with him anymore again,
because I'm trying
to pass a bill here.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING)
Vote no. Vote no.
Vote no. Vote no.
Vote no. Vote no.
PROTESTER: (OVER MEGAPHONE)
Let them hear us.
Let them hear us.
See the lights up there?
That's where we need
to be yelling.
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING)
Kill the bill! Kill the bill!
PROTESTER 1:
PROTESTER 2:
PROTESTER 3:
(PROTESTERS JEERING)
PROTESTER 4:
ALEXANDRA: Did you hear that?
The guy said,
"We will remember in November."
-PROTESTER 5: Don't touch me.
-MIKE PENCE:
Nancy Pelosi last night said
that they were answering
the call of history, right?
I got to tell you,
if Democrats keep ignoring
the American people,
their party's gonna be
history in about a year.
It is time
to pass healthcare reform
for America. And I am confident
that you are going to do it
tomorrow.
Thank you very much,
House of Representatives.
Let's get this done.
REPORTER 1: Is there any sense
of trepidation from people
who are thinking
about voting for this?
REPORTER 2: I think some of them
are just committing
political suicide
and they know it.
STENY HOYER:
One-eighty-six, 18, and eight.
Are you leaving
somebody out of eight?
PELOSI: Okay, so what is this,
what does this add up to?
-One-eighty-six and 18 is 214.
-STAFFER: Okay, 186.
PELOSI:
What is it, 204 and seven, 211?
The lists are a way to sort of
do a whip tally of our caucus,
make sure
that we've got every member
exactly where we want to be.
She wants to see,
real time, where we are.
And she's always
adding up the numbers.
Boucher, Bright,
Chandler, Childress, Costello.
We have to try it again.
I'll invite him
to this other meeting.
Davis, Davis.
Fourteen, fifteen...
Some people count sheep
at night. I count votes.
It's really close.
I mean, it really is close.
GEORGE MILLER: The members
are coming back saying,
"I can't do it. I can't do it."
And finally she just says,
"Give me the names
and leave me alone."
PELOSI:
And only in that circumstance
would I call you
to see if you could
influence Mr. Donnelly
to support the bill.
PELOSI:
JERRY HARTZ: We were probably
at 190 votes 48 hours ago.
Right now, we need 216 votes
to win in the House.
That's the majority.
The Speaker's probably talked
to every single person
on this list
except her closest friends,
who she knows
that are gonna be with us.
Thank you, Father.
I'd love to come
to get your blessing.
You have been a leader,
an inspiration.
The Speaker has amazing power
of persuasion.
She's a heat-seeking missile
on votes.
She appeals
to their moral fiber.
PELOSI: He said to me,
"I'm going to ruin
my career here."
I said, "This is not a place
for people without options.
If the idea was to come
because you can't be
any other place,
we don't want you here."
I would walk out
of the Speaker's office
on Sunday night
and never come back,
thrilled forever
that we have 32 million people.
They think that their being here
is more important than that.
You want my job. (LAUGHS)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
-PELOSI: These two make it 211.
-HARTZ: Right.
PELOSI:
Plus these two make it 213.
Four, five...
HARTZ: We need 216 votes
to win in the House.
That's the majority.
So right now we have 217.
We're across the finish line.
We've got
one undecided left, just one.
Two-eighteen,
but I thought we were 219.
HARTZ:
But every member that casts
a vote on a one-vote margin
could be accused
of being the person
who put it over the line.
So you really tactically
wanna have two or three,
or four or five votes.
(PROTESTERS CLAMORING)
PROTESTERS:
(CHANTING) Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
REPORTER: Speaker Pelosi
leading House Democrats
up the steps of the Capitol.
The Speaker carrying the gavel
that the House used
when it voted
to create Medicare.
PROTESTERS:
After we pass this bill,
being a woman will no longer
be a preexisting
medical condition.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS CHEER,
APPLAUD)
On this vote, the yeas are 219,
the nays are 212.
-The bill is passed.
-(CONGRESS MEMBERS CHEER)
(GAVEL THUDS)
REPORTER: History on the Hill.
Democrats finally accomplished
what they had been promising
for decades,
healthcare for all Americans.
Well, I was pretty happy
last night,
but I'm not sure
I was happier
than when you got
elected president. (LAUGHS)
'Cause--
Thank you, Mr. President. Bye.
I'm sorry you didn't...
ALEXANDRA: So, what does
the president
have to say for himself?
He said he was happier
than he was the night
he got elected.
("KODACHROME"
BY PAUL SIMON PLAYING)
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take
A photograph...
-Pick me, me.
-What's that?
Don't take
My Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take
My Kodachrome away
Mimi, up.
All righty.
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take
My Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take
My Kodachrome...
ALEXANDRA: Come on, Paulie.
Show me the wave.
Yay!
-ALEXANDRA:
Show me the wave.
-Let's do this.
Mama, don't take
My Kodachrome
There we go.
REPORTER: To Democrats,
this historic legislation
is their generation's
biggest accomplishment.
To Republicans,
it's the beginning
of a government takeover
of our healthcare system.
JOHN MCCAIN: The American people
are very angry.
And they don't like it.
And they're-- And we're going
to try to repeal this.
And we are going
to have a very spirited campaign
coming up
between now and November.
And there will be a very
heavy price to pay for it.
-Are we going to fire Pelosi?
-CROWD: Yeah!
Are you going to take back
your government?
CROWD: Yeah!
ALEXANDRA: So would you rather
pass healthcare or be Speaker?
PELOSI: Oh, my goodness, there's
absolutely no comparison.
The fact is we're there
to do a job, not to keep a job.
I am so proud of what we did
in healthcare.
And if I have to go
have another line of work
because I voted to give
the American people
security in their healthcare
in their country,
so be it. I'm proud to do it.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER 1: CNN can now
project the Republicans
will have a net gain
of 39 seats, at least 39 seats.
They will become the majority
in the House of Representatives.
John Boehner
will become the next Speaker
of the House
of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi
will not be the Speaker.
REPORTER 2: Nine out of ten
voters in our exit poll
told us they are worried
about the economy...
Hey, Mr. President,
not a good night.
Our members have said
they don't regret
their healthcare bill
right across the board.
Even if we never
passed healthcare reform,
we were still going to lose
this election
because of the nine
and a half percent unemployment.
'Cause it wasn't about that,
it was about jobs.
The White male thing is just--
That's a dominant thing.
When they don't have a job,
they get in a mood. And, um...
So, we'll have
to make some decisions
in our caucus
about how we go forward.
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
ALEXANDRA: So did you ever
intend to stay this long?
PELOSI: When Trump was elected,
I knew I had to stay
to protect
the Affordable Care Act.
TRUMP: Tonight I am also
calling on this Congress
to repeal and replace
Obamacare.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS CHEER)
To save Americans
from this imploding
Obamacare disaster.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS CHEER)
PELOSI:
When we first were passing
the Affordable Care Act,
I said, "We view this...
as an opportunity
and a responsibility
of a generation,
there with Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid."
And we are not gonna let
anything stand
in the way of our passing
this legislation.
(PROTESTERS CHEER)
PELOSI: We pushed open the gate.
We're not letting them push
that gate back.
(INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC
PLAYING)
(PROTESTERS CHEER, APPLAUD)
ALEXANDRA:
So you went on the road
to defend
the Affordable Care Act?
PELOSI: Oh, yeah.
When it was clear
that the Republicans were out to
repeal the Affordable Care Act,
plans were placed into motion
for 10,000 events
across the country
where people told their stories.
REPORTER 1: Estimated
6,000 people showed up
in Boston yesterday,
6,000 people, in support
of the Affordable Care Act.
REPORTER 2: People got up on
stages throughout the country,
sharing their story
about the Affordable Care Act,
how it's literally
saved their lives.
Healthcare is a human right!
PROTESTERS:
Healthcare is a human right!
Thank you for not agonizing,
but organizing.
Kill the bill! Kill the bill!
PROTESTERS: Kill the bill!
PELOSI: All of you
are making a difference.
I'm feeling very optimistic.
The difference is made
by the outside mobilization.
You are making that difference.
On behalf
of the House Democrats,
I come to thank you for that.
(PROTESTERS CHEER, APPLAUD)
REPORTER:
Arizona Senator, John McCain,
this is his first trip
back to Washington
since being diagnosed
with brain cancer.
ALEXANDRA: Isn't it ironic?
The guy who fought the hardest
against
the Affordable Care Act...
Hey, guys. How are you?
Good to see you.
...is now going to cast
the deciding vote
on your signature legislation?
PELOSI: Well, it isn't ironic
as much as it is showing
how far the Republicans
were willing to go
to undermine the health security
of our country.
PELOSI: Senator?
Your courage, which is endless,
your coming back
to being an adult in the room
in addition to being a hero,
is really very valuable,
and I'm enormously grateful
for that.
No. Thank you, Senator.
You're wonderful.
Thank you,
thank you for everything,
again and again.
(MUSIC FADING)
-CLERK: Mr. Manchin.
-JOE MANCHIN: No.
-CLERK: Mr. Markey.
-ED MARKEY: No.
CLERK: Mr. McCain.
-MCCAIN: No.
-(SENATORS GASP)
-(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
-(INDISTINCT MURMURING)
REPORTER:
The Republican effort to repeal
the Affordable Care Act
has failed.
Arizona Senator, John McCain
helped sink the effort,
along with Susan Collins
and Lisa Murkowski.
Hello? Hey.
Mr. Speaker,
thank you for calling back.
I called for two reasons.
One was to say, hopefully,
we can have regular order
and work together
to make the improvements
and updating
of the Affordable Care Act.
And then we can listen to,
you know, all the ideas
in the world
now that we have
not scared people to death
with a repeal. Thank you.
Have a good break.
Thank you, bye-bye.
ALEXANDRA: So this is what
you do all day? You call people.
Well, it's not all
that I do all day,
but it's part of what I do.
And that's why when people look
at my schedule and say,
"You have free time."
I say, "I don't have free time.
I have a day job and I have
to make things happen."
So I can't make it happen
if I'm in a meeting every--
You know.
I can make that happen,
but I have other things
that are going on.
So it's a working farm.
There are all kinds of things
going on here all the time.
Really? It is glorious.
And for me,
it was the reason I stayed.
It was just to protect
the Affordable Care Act,
because it means so much.
So how do you feel, Chuck?
You feel good?
(CHUCKLES)
You're a nut. Goodbye.
(TRADITIONAL ITALIAN FOLK
MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOAT ENGINE REVVING)
(SPEAKS ITALIAN)
Look at the honeymooners.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALEXANDRA: No, I'm enjoying
the honeymooners. Hold on.
This is nice.
The honeymooners.
(GONDOLIER SINGING
IN ITALIAN)
Aw. The honeymooners.
THOMAS VOS: Woohoo!
Okay, let me get a sip.
Let me get a sip.
ALEXANDRA: Go ahead.
Thomas, you have a sip, too.
Just taste it.
-Okay.
-First sip of champagne.
-She's coming.
-Take-- It's okay.
Just take a sip.
PELOSI:
I heard a pop. Oh, come on.
I don't want these boys
drinking alcohol.
ALEXANDRA:
He's just tasting it, Mimi.
(WHIMSICAL ACCORDION MUSIC
PLAYING)
PELOSI: This is one of my most
favorite places in the world.
The miracle
of carving this marble...
PAUL PELOSI: Out of one piece.
...so that it looks like
it's all folded like cloth.
Look at that...
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(CLAMORING CONTINUES)
PELOSI: Nice to see you.
PAUL: In Washington, yes, yes.
PAUL:
It's an honor to meet you.
PELOSI:
(PAUL AND PELOSI LAUGH)
PELOSI: So-- Oh, thank you,
your holiness, so much.
PELOSI: Yes. Thank you.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER: One hundred days now
to the midterm elections.
Republicans have the majority
right now, 235 seats.
The Democrats are at 193.
This is the most important
election of our time.
We have made a decision to win.
Onward to a great
Democratic victory.
(CROWD CHEERING)
REPORTER: The Democrats
sweep these toss-ups,
that would give them 230 seats,
more than enough
to be in the majority.
ALEXANDRA:
So you've been doing battle
with Trump for two years now,
and this is your moment
to rein him in.
What's your game plan?
PELOSI: The game plan
is to own the ground.
That means you must be able
to get out every possible vote.
It's about owning the ground
on election day.
Knocking on doors,
walking those precincts,
making those calls
for the American people.
Lower healthcare cost,
bigger paychecks,
cleaner government
for people to trust again.
We don't agonize, we organize.
Are you ready for that?
Are you ready for that?
CROWD: Yeah!
PELOSI: I think you can do
a little better.
CROWD: (LOUDER) Yeah!
PELOSI: On our talking points
we have the economic message,
and that is what it has to be.
Look, I got the rainbow
on my arm.
I got the this for the that.
All these things are in our DNA,
but they're not
in our talking points.
It's all about the economy.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PELOSI: So people ask,
"Is it going to be a wave
or is it going to be a tsunami?"
And I said, "In any case,
it's a series of drops,
small drops of water."
How many drops of water
we have will determine
if it's a wave or a tsunami.
But all these races are going
to be very, very close.
Think of the Olympics.
One second,
gold, silver, bronze,
honored to be an Olympian.
I have a sixth sense about,
um...
the scent of elections.
And I smell success
wherever I go...
ALEXANDRA:
You are impossible to crack.
-You're always on message.
-You know me.
ALEXANDRA: How do you do it?
How do you always stay on
all the time?
You're impossible to crack.
-You know that.
-Yeah.
Well, I have my sensitivities.
ALEXANDRA: What does that mean?
(LAUGHS) That means
I have to be sensitive
to the impact of my words
on certain other campaigns.
You know, if I'm saying,
"I can smell success,"
that means I can smell
lack of success as well.
ALEXANDRA: You're a tough nut
to crack. You know that?
-There's no cracking you, huh?
-Hmm.
Well, if that's
what you want to do,
crack your mom. (LAUGHS)
ALEXANDRA:
Yes, I do. I want to crack you.
(CHUCKLES)
REPORTER:
Nancy Pelosi's already looking
beyond
this year's midterm election
to taking back
the Speaker's gavel.
PELOSI: (OVER RECORDING)
"I will run for Speaker
and I feel confident about it."
AD NARRATOR:
With Pelosi as Speaker,
everything we fought for
will come undone.
ALEXANDRA: Mom, they're really
coming after you.
-Have you seen these ads?
-PELOSI: I don't see them
because they don't show them
in San Francisco.
But I've heard about them,
that they had
137,000 ads against me.
AD NARRATOR: Once, Nancy Pelosi
was safely confined
to liberal San Francisco.
PELOSI: The Republicans knew
that I was a problem to them
because I was successful.
If I were not successful,
I would not have been
their target.
And by the way,
when you're a woman
you're more of a target.
AD NARRATOR: Vote November 2nd,
the day we fight back.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Mom, she's gonna win.
She's gonna win, 90 percent.
(CROWD CHEERING)
PAUL VOS: Delgado won.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Mimi, Mimi, Mimi.
Mimi, CNN, they predict...
NEWS ANCHOR: CNN can now project
the Democrats
will win the majority
in the US House
of Representatives.
This is a huge win
for the Democrats,
a huge setback for the president
and for the Republicans.
(CROWD CHEERING)
ANNOUNCER:
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
CROWD: (CHANTING)
Speaker. Speaker. Speaker.
Speaker. Speaker. Speaker.
(CHANTING FADES)
TRUMP: (OVER TV) Last night,
the Republican Party
defied history
to expand our Senate majority,
while significantly
beating expectations
-in the House.
-What is this?
-TRUMP: That's a big percentage
of the numbers.
-I mean, really?
So, it really could be
a beautiful bipartisan
type of situation.
-Unless we--
-Listen.
Perhaps, looks like I would
think, Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
I give her a great deal
of credit for what she's done
-and what she's accomplished.
-REPORTER 1: And do you expect
that when the Democrats
take over the chairmanship
of all these
important committees
you're going to get hit
with a blizzard of subpoenas
-on everything from Russia.
-So, "Let's impeach
the president
and then we'll impeach
the vice president."
These people are sick.
And you know what?
They have to get their bearing.
Really, they have
to get their bearing.
-And when you...
-There's something wrong
with this man. There's something
seriously wrong.
TRUMP: They're the ones
that cause the division.
-They cause tremendous division.
-REPORTER 2:
Okay, regarding all of your--
ALEXANDRA: Oh, my God,
he's saying Nancy Pelosi
deserves to be
Speaker of the House.
And, "If they give her
a hard time,
perhaps we'll add
some Republican votes."
There are some Democrats
who are saying
they're not going
to vote for you.
PELOSI: Well, I've never
had a unanimous vote.
I've always had an opponent.
So I feel pretty comfortable
about it.
REPORTER: They have this fairly
elderly leadership in the House.
And there's certainly
a large portion of the party
that would like
to see some younger blood.
PELOSI:
There are some people there
who probably have a legitimate
concern about succession.
There are others who don't.
They just have been negative
and almost haters.
ALEXANDRA:
The talking heads are saying
you're not going to be Speaker,
you don't have the votes.
PELOSI:
The press likes to sell papers.
They all found it interesting
to exaggerate the opposition
to my becoming Speaker.
I wouldn't ask members
to vote for me
if I didn't know
I had the votes.
I have a good feel
for where the votes
are in my caucus.
KELSEY SMITH:
Since the election,
she has met in person
with 67 members
or members elect.
ALEXANDRA:
How do you get people's votes?
Do you just break their knees
-and make them vote for you?
-PELOSI: (CHUCKLES) No!
I'm very respectful
of people's views.
So I want to hear what they are.
I want to hear
what people have to say.
You count votes by listening.
This is how the sausage is made,
these one-on-one conversations.
This is why she knows
how everyone's gonna vote
before the votes.
PELOSI: Well, now we have
170 publicly committed.
Some of them
will not be telling the truth,
and some of the others
that I discounted, would be.
And that would make a real mix.
So we'll see.
JOHN LEWIS:
Nancy has been with us.
And she will be with us now,
tomorrow, and in years to come.
I ask of you, I beg of you,
I plead with you,
to go and do what we must do
and cast the vote
for Nancy Pelosi
as the next Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
(CONGRESSPEOPLE CHEER, APPLAUD)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
HAKEEM JEFFRIES:
Votes for the election
of the Democratic nominee
for Speaker of the House,
results are,
out of 239 ballots cast,
Representative
Nancy Pelosi received...
(CONGRESSPEOPLE APPLAUD)
Nancy Pelosi has been elected
as the Democratic nominee
for Speaker
of the House over 100...
(CONGRESSPEOPLE CHEERING)
TRUMP: If we don't have
border security,
we'll shut down the government.
Because the people
of this country don't want
criminals and drugs
pouring into our countries.
You know, Nancy's in a situation
where it's not easy for her
to talk right now,
and I understand that.
But we have
to have border security.
Mr. President,
please don't characterize
the strength that I bring
to this meeting
as the leader
of the House Democrats
who just won a big victory.
REPORTER: At that now famous
Oval Office meeting...
You have in the White House...
Trump shutdown.
REPORTER: ...there was
a lot of shade thrown.
But when Nancy Pelosi
put on shades
for exactly five seconds,
that became the moment
her fans immortalized.
"The new power suit for women.
Red coat. Sunglasses.
Nerves of steel."
I mean, look at the two of them.
He looks
like he had a panic attack
in a steam room,
and she looks like
Neo from The Matrix...
-(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
-...if he shopped at Talbots.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
REPORTER: Nancy Pelosi was
the first woman
to be elected
Speaker of the House.
Today, she becomes
just the second person
to have lost that position,
then be elected Speaker again.
DON YOUNG: If the gentlewoman
from California
would please raise
her right hand.
Do you solemnly swear
that you will support
and defend the Constitution
of the United States
against all enemies,
foreign and domestic?
That you will bear truth, faith,
and allegiance to the same,
and that you will well
and faithfully discharge
the duties of the office
of which you're about to enter,
-so help you God?
-I do.
YOUNG:
Congratulations, Madam Speaker.
(CONGRESSPEOPLE CHEER, APPLAUD)
PELOSI: I now call the House
to order on behalf
of all of America's children.
("MY GIRL" BY THE TEMPTATIONS
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
(MIKE DOYLE AND JOHN LARSON
SINGING ALONG TO MUSIC)
-I've got all the riches
-Ooh
-DOYLE:
Baby, one man can claim
-LARSON: Ooh
Well, I guess
You say
What can make me
Feel this way
-Our girl
-Our girl
Talkin' about our girl,
Nancy Pelosi
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING)
Liar. Thief. Predator-in-chief.
Liar, thief, predator-in-chief.
Liar, thief, predator-in-chief.
Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
GEORGE: (OVER PHONE):
REPORTER: Is it all
about taking down Trump?
I know you have a little
impeachment plan going...
I'm celebrating my grandson's
graduation tonight.
I'm not talking politics.
Totally okay.
Thank you very much.
-PELOSI: Thank you, bye-bye.
-REPORTER: Appreciate your time.
Oh, and if he does
get impeached,
-will we see the clap again?
-PELOSI: We could. (LAUGHS)
REPORTER:
Will we see-- That was epic.
Have a good night, Nancy,
thank you so much.
-PELOSI: Thank you.
-REPORTER: Take care.
(CHANTING) Hey, hey. Ho, ho.
Donald Trump has got to go.
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING)
Hey, hey. Ho, ho.
Donald Trump has got to go.
Impeachment!
(PROTESTERS CHEERING)
Every day, he's obstructing
justice by saying,
"This one shouldn't testify.
That one shouldn't test--"
So he's making the case.
But he's just trying
to goad us into impeachment.
So unless there is a case
that can be made to the public
in a bipartisan way,
I think
it would be very hard to...
Well, let's just see
what comes in.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER 1: A mysterious
whistleblower report
is consuming Washington,
but details are still limited.
The report appears to center
in part around communications
between President Trump
and the president of Ukraine.
REPORTER 2: The Wall Street
Journal reports during the call,
Mr. Trump pressured
the Ukrainian president
to investigate
former Vice President,
Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
-Hunter Biden was...
-This crossed a line
that we have to act upon.
As some of your members
have said,
if all the other stuff
never existed,
this would be reason enough
to go forward.
REPORTER: The White House
has just released a transcript
of President Trump's July 25th
phone call
with Ukraine's president.
ALEXANDRA:
You've been resisting the call
to impeach President Trump.
So what pushed you
over the line?
PELOSI:
The president just didn't
seem to know right from wrong.
He thought
that releasing the transcript
was going to be a vindication
for him,
instead of an indictment...
which it was.
ALEXANDRA:
So this is the transcript.
Let me read you two sentences.
President Zelensky says,
"We are ready
to buy more Javelins
from the United States
for defense purposes."
The very next sentence
from President Trump,
"I would like you
to do us a favor, though."
Further into the transcript
he says,
"The other thing,
there's lots of talk
about Biden's son."
Trump describes how he would
like the president of Ukraine
to investigate
his political opponent,
Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
Telling him who he's going
to have call him
to help implement that,
including the attorney general
of the United States.
PELOSI: "I need a favor.
I need a favor."
He didn't really know
right from wrong.
And what he had done
is crossed a threshold
into impeachment territory.
Somebody's just
sent me this picture,
which has been
in the public domain
for a while.
And it's a picture in which
I am saying to the president,
"With you, Mr. President,
all roads lead to Putin.
I'm out of here
in terms of this meeting."
And the White House,
uh, put-- took the picture,
'cause we're not even allowed
to bring cameras
into such a room.
The Pre-- The White House
put this out to show
how out of hand I had become.
But in fact, what they did
was a giant favor to me
for people seeing me
stand up to the president,
especially in a room
of all these White men.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI: In the darkest days
of the revolution,
Thomas Paine wrote,
"The times have found us.
The times have found us."
We believe that the times
have found us now.
Not that we compare ourselves
to the greatness
of our founders.
But we do identify an urgency
of protecting our Constitution,
which this president
is not honoring
his oath of office to.
If we do not have
a system of checks and balances,
separation of power,
political branches
of government,
we have a monarchy.
The actions
of the Trump presidency
revealed the dishonorable fact
of the president's betrayal
of his oath of office,
betrayal
of our national security,
and betrayal of the integrity
of our elections.
Therefore, today, I'm announcing
the House of Representatives
is moving forward
with an official
impeachment inquiry.
REPORTER: House Democrats,
they're ramping up
their impeachment inquiry.
The House Judiciary Committee
is taking the lead in holding
its first hearing
next Wednesday.
Chairman Jerry Nadler
has invited
President Trump's lawyers
to attend.
Jerry, Let me ask you,
how do you intend to deal with
the questions
from the members?
Are you going to give them
a question and say--
say, "You have five minutes,
that includes the answer?"
Hi, Jack. It's Paul Pelosi.
He's got to control that,
and I'm going to strive...
-The guys are there at the gate.
-...to vote Thursday for the...
I let them get in the gate,
but they went up
up to the parking lot. And I had
them look for the key.
-The key's not on the hook.
-So that he's not actually
saying the articles
of impeachment,
-but kind of what direction...
-PAUL: But when you get...
-I don't know what...
-PAUL: But anyway,
-when you get up there...
-And I don't want that.
-...there are those
-He...
-Oh, the house is unlocked?
-JACK: (OVER PHONE) Yep.
-And then I said...
-What the fuck?
All right.
But the alarm's on, right?
The point is the witnesses.
You have good witnesses
to say...
I don't know what the fuck
happened to that key,
-but that's really annoying.
-...we can have the articles
-considered--
-Really annoying.
-You can do the...
-I said, but basically,
here's what you say to Aaron,
-what I told you.
-PAUL: We'll talk about,
measuring the TVs and that crap,
then we can open up...
They only are talking
about process.
-That's all they can about.
-Good. Good, okay.
Well, thank you, guys. Really.
And sorry for the wrinkle.
You're dealing with jerks.
That's why Ukraine
was so valuable to us,
because it was substantive.
It wasn't just a charge,
but it has a charge
about something
that people could understand.
He has put at risk
the separation of powers.
It seems to me that that
is the Constitutional argument
that we're here for.
Are we able to have oversight
of the President
of the United States?
If we're not,
then we don't have a democracy.
We feel comfortable
with all of the time
that has gone into this.
-REPORTERS: Speaker, speaker.
-REPORTER 1: H.R.3?
REPORTER 2:
Thank you very much. Thank you.
REPORTER 3: Do you hate
the president, Madam Speaker?
-Because...
-I don't hate anybody.
-REPORTER 3:
Representative Collins sug--
-I was raised
-in a Catholic house...
-REPORTER 3: The reason I ask--
...you don't hate anybody,
not anybody in the world.
-So don't accuse me of anything.
-REPORTER 3:
I did not accuse you.
-You did. You did. You did.
-REPORTER 3: I asked a question.
Representative Collins yesterday
suggested that the Democrats
are doing this simply
because they don't like the guy.
That has nothing to do with--
Let me just say this.
-I think it's important.
-PELOSI: As a Catholic,
I resent your using
the word "hate"
in a sentence that addresses me.
I don't hate anyone.
I was raised in a way
that is a heart full of love,
and always prayed
for the president.
And I still pray
for the president.
I pray for the president
all the time.
So, don't mess with me
when it comes
to words like that.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS
CLICKING RAPIDLY)
PELOSI: We have two articles,
so we'll be debating
the two articles.
Then we vote
on each article separately.
So, that's the impeachment vote.
Then after that,
we have a vote empowering us
to take it to the Senate.
But I'm not doing that
until I see what the--
the process is in the Senate.
Then I'll determine who I send.
I mean, did you ever see
a situation where the jury says,
"I'm doing whatever
the defendant wants me to do?"
Really? I mean, it's sick.
It's sick.
He's impeached forever,
no matter what they do.
But if they want
to vindicate him,
they better come up
with some rules
that are appropriate.
I want to have the flag,
and then I want to have
something that goes across,
or next to, or above.
"And to the republic
for which it stands."
"The republic,
for which it stands,
is what we are here
to talk about, a republic.
If we can--"
I think the first page is good.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
And thank you, bye-bye. Bye-bye.
He told me in Hebrew.
(SPEAKING IN HEBREW)
What was that?
"May God give you
very good luck."
ALEXANDRA: You don't need luck.
We make our own luck.
There's one thing
I want to ask you to do.
Somewhere in here
I have a birthday card
for my granddaughter, Madeline.
Twenty-one years old.
I think it could be in one of--
-that other folder.
-EMILY BERRET: Other folder?
One of those two other folders
-that I brought in.
-EMILY:
Okay. We'll look through.
I'm gonna take a few, okay?
I'm gonna need them all today.
EMILY: I'll keep them
in my pockets. I'll have them.
Just take one right now and
I'll keep the rest in my pocket.
Okay.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI: When our founders
declared independence
and established a new nation,
they crafted a system
of government
unlike one ever seen before.
A republic,
starting with the sacred words,
"We the people."
For centuries,
Americans have fought and died
-to defend democracy...
-REPORTER: Madam Speaker?
-PELOSI: ...for the people.
-REPORTER: Madam Speaker?
But, very sadly now,
our founders' vision
of a republic
is under threat from actions
from the White House.
That is why today,
as Speaker of the House,
I, solemnly and sadly,
open the debate
on the impeachment
of the President
of the United States.
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
STAFFER: Careful, careful,
careful, careful.
REPORTER 1:
When will you send over
the impeachment, Madam?
REPORTER 2:
Madam, can you share
a message to the outside world?
Is American democracy
functioning well?
STAFFER: People behind me.
Please open the door.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
ALEXANDRA: So, that's it, Mimi.
Impeachment is over.
-How do you feel?
-It's not over.
I mean,
impeachment is over. But our--
the House's responsibility
to protect and defend
the Constitution
and the separation of checks
and balances is not over.
So, protecting Article One
will always be our mission
in the courts and in the court
of public opinion.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ALEXANDRA:
ALEXANDRA:
You made that joke last year.
-Hey--
-Well, you know, it's nice
to be consistent.
ALEXANDRA: Are you gonna be
on your best behavior tonight?
Yes, I am. Let me just go down
to the ladies' room.
-PAUL:
-Thanks very much. Thank you.
-ALEXANDRA:
Okay, good luck, Mimi.
-PELOSI: Thank you.
-ALEXANDRA:
Keep a straight face.
-PELOSI: I will.
ALEXANDRA:
Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
COMMENTATOR 1: He will be
speaking to a room filled
with House Democrats
who voted to impeach him
just a month and a half ago.
On the other hand,
the President
does give this speech
with the certainty
that he will
be acquitted tomorrow.
You see
the Speaker of the House
just tried to shake
the President's hand
and he refused,
or perhaps
did not see her hand.
As I mentioned, there's a lot of
tension between the two of them.
COMMENTATOR 2: And he did not
extend his to her.
Before I took office,
health insurance premiums
had more than doubled
in just five years...
We will always protect patients
with preexisting conditions.
And we will always protect
your Medicare.
And we will always protect
your social security.
We will never let socialism
destroy American healthcare.
On the coronavirus outbreak
in China,
my administration will take
all necessary steps
to safeguard our citizens.
And my fellow Americans,
the best is yet to come.
Thank you. God bless you.
And God bless America.
Thank you very much.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
-So?
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 1:
REPORTER 2:
ALEXANDRA: What were
the most egregious violations?
Well, every page.
I mean, it's like a hundred.
That was a piece of crap.
It was a total pack of lies.
It was a total pack of lies.
And anything that wasn't a lie,
we did
and he took credit for it.
-STAFFER: Right.
-It's like we demanded
we're not going to give you
a defense bill
unless we have parental leave.
So he said,
"And I signed a historic--"
Yeah, you signed it.
But you didn't have anything
to do with it. And we demanded
that you do it.
I feel very liberated
by that speech tonight.
If that's how he wants
to play it,
then we can have no holds bar.
We just have to call him a liar.
REPORTER: What's your next step
after State of the Union?
We're going to the UAW
to talk about workers.
ALEXANDRA: I don't think
that was the answer
they were looking for.
That's the next step.
That's where I'm going.
The framers predicted
that factional fever
might dominate--
(TV AUDIO STOPS)
PELOSI: I don't want anybody
to hear you.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER 1:
The World Health Organization
has declared the coronavirus
a global pandemic.
REPORTER 2: There are now
more than 120,000 known cases
in 114 countries.
REPORTER 3:
In the United States,
the death toll is rising.
Over 1,000 cases
have been reported
with at least
30 confirmed deaths.
REPORTER 4: COVID-19 could cause
an economic tsunami.
REPORTER 5: The great shutdown
of 2020 is underway.
ALEXANDRA:
The country is at a standstill.
Nobody can go to work.
Nobody can leave the house.
We're in danger of going
into a great recession.
What's Congress gonna do
about it?
PELOSI: Congress must act
and Congress must act soon.
Of course, we wanted
the legislation
to be bipartisan.
But the Republican leadership
in the Senate
was really thinking more of
a trickle-down kind of a bill.
We want it to be more addressing
the needs of state
and local government,
in a way that enabled
our essential workers
to continue to work.
-PELOSI: Well, good morning.
-Good morning, Speaker.
-PELOSI: How are you?
-Very good, pardon me.
PELOSI:
REPORTER:
So, no deal that's bipartisan
-at this point?
-Right.
CHUCK SCHUMER: (OVER PHONE)
I said, "Leader McConnell
brought this bill to the floor
knowing what the outcome
would be, and knowing
-the negotiations were ongoing."
-PAUL: It's impossible--
It's impossible.
-SCHUMER: So, who's he kidding?
-How about in that meeting
when I quoted His Holiness
Saint Fran-- Pope Francis.
-SCHUMER: Yeah.
-And then Mnuchin said,
"Well, you quoted the Pope.
I'm going to quote the markets."
-SCHUMER: Yeah.
Is that what he said?
-"I'm gonna quote the markets."
(BOTH LAUGH)
SCHUMER:
Look, Mnuchin
and the White House want a deal.
The guy who keeps screwing it up
is McConnell.
I can't quite figure it out.
PELOSI: Our first attempts
at bipartisanship
were not successful.
The election money
is a big deal to our folks.
They want to see us
put a mandate
that all the states
have to have vote by mail,
only now,
just for the coronavirus period.
I mean, nothing for postal.
And they said that's coming
directly from the White House.
He doesn't want any postal,
'cause he doesn't want any mail.
I mean, he doesn't want
any vote by mail.
Okay, thank you, dear. Bye-bye.
(PHONE CLATTERS)
See, here's what happens
in negotiations.
When you get toward the end,
people get tired.
And that's what he is.
You can't get tired.
You can never get tired.
You can't wear yourself down
to the point of,
"Oh, forget about it.
Just let's do it this way."
They're terrible people.
They're the worst.
They radicalize you.
They really make you
some kind of a left-wing...
advocate.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
-PELOSI:
Hi, George, good morning.
-GEORGE: (OVER PHONE) Morning.
Mnuchin said he talked
to the President ten times
at least yesterday.
And he said
that the President is onboard
with the direction
things are headed,
and would like to have a deal,
and is hopeful
he'll do it today.
PELOSI:
They will do terrible things
on immigration.
And I told Chuck that some
of the things
they're suggesting
are nonstarters.
They know it's a winning issue
for them at this time,
when people are saying,
"Well, we're trying to work
and she's holding up the bill
because of that." But I will.
Come on. That was their excuse
to begin with.
Okay, let me just call Meadows.
This is a waste of time.
ALEXANDRA: What happened?
...so they didn't.
But they put it in here
the exact amount of money,
that it could be transferred
to another account.
It's a technique.
Hi, Mark. How are you?
I'm okay. I'm okay.
I have a problem here, though.
We want to get this done,
but I have one place I can't go.
And that is to have that money
that-- As we review the bill,
we see is kind of disguised
in here,
which is
this 289 million dollars
to transfer to other agencies.
I had plenty other reasons
why members don't want
to do the bill.
I have four black books
full of their complaints,
'cause I take notes
on everything.
"How come big business gets this
and small business doesn't get?
And how come this?
And how come that?"
And I have page, after page,
after page.
And I just say, I hope
you would just trust me
because, on balance,
I think we did very well
in this or that.
But I cannot take a bill
to the floor with this in it.
This is, you know,
a backdoor way for something
that I said we could not cross
the threshold of.
ALEXANDRA:
So, you cleaned up the bill,
they passed it in the Senate,
and now you have to get it
through the House.
PELOSI: Yes. What is important
about the negotiation
is to try to find
as much common ground,
knowing that each of us is
not going to have our own way,
at least in this legislation,
we can live to fight
another day.
Okay. See what fires we need
to put out. Okie doke.
-STAFFER: All right, see you.
-I love that sweater on you.
Our nation faces an economic
and health emergency
of historic proportions,
due to the coronavirus pandemic,
the worst pandemic
in over 100 years.
HOUSE CHAIR:
Those in favor, say "Aye."
CONGRESSPEOPLE: Aye!
HOUSE CHAIR:
Those opposed say, "No."
-CONGRESSPEOPLE: No.
-The ayes have it.
REPORTER: This
2.2-trillion-dollar relief bill
will now be enrolled
by the Speaker of the House
and sent
to the President's desk today.
ANDERSON COOPER: (OVER TV)
2.2 trillion dollars
clearly wasn't enough
to handle the fallout.
You've reportedly
told House Democrats
another trillion dollars will
be needed in the next round.
It was clear,
even as we passed the last bill,
that it would not be enough.
Again, a template...
ALEXANDRA:
In your COVID legislation,
what's important to you?
PELOSI: We had to support state
and local government
in a way that enabled
our essential workers
to continue to work.
PELOSI FAMILY:
Good night, Jesus.
Thank you for everything.
God bless everyone,
especially Mom and Dad.
Amen. Godsend.
-Bye, sweetheart.
-Bye, Mimi.
-PAUL: Good night, guys.
-Good night.
PAUL VOS: Bye, guys, I love you.
Okay, this could be the moment.
My members are on fire
on state and local.
This is who they represent.
The firefighters,
the police officers,
the teachers, everybody
that makes government run,
those people are being fired
as we speak.
(DIAL TONE RINGS)
-SCHUMER: Hi.
-Well, we gave them something
-to think about, huh?
-SCHUMER: Yeah. And look,
let's assume we get
what we want on hospitals,
This idea
that he'll announce it later,
I think it's bullshit.
Sorry, bull-doody.
Yeah. We've got a lot, though.
I just think
that we have to make sure--
SCHUMER: Hey, Nancy.
We did pretty well...
-We did.
-SCHUMER: ...given everything.
They need us.
-And if we don't give in...
-PELOSI: Yeah, they need us.
SCHUMER:
...so fast, we get more.
(CUTLERY CLINKING)
(PENCE SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER PHONE)
PENCE: Uh, Madam Speaker?
Good morning again,
Mr. Vice President.
Thank you very much for being
with us this morning.
We look forward...
ALEXANDRA: Pop,
she's got the Vice President now
we've got to keep it down.
PELOSI: ...on how we can all
work together
for the good
of the American people
for their lives
and their livelihood.
-(LAUGHS QUIETLY)
-(ALEXANDRA CHUCKLES)
(WATER RUNNING)
(ALEXANDRA CHUCKLES)
(CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(PENCE SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER PHONE)
ALEXANDRA:
You're doing your laundry
during Mike Pence's
presentation?
(PENCE CONTINUES SPEAKING
OVER PHONE)
ALEXANDRA:
What is the point of this call?
(PENCE CONTINUES SPEAKING
OVER PHONE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER PHONE)
PELOSI: Thank you very much,
Mr. Chairman.
I join you in thanking
the Vice President
and his task force.
This has been a useful exchange.
It gives us a measure
of what our challenge is,
in so many ways.
We'd like to see a figure
of how many people are tested.
We're gonna,
as the expression goes,
be flying blind
unless we take inventory.
In the intelligence community,
we had a phrase we used,
"Needs and leads."
Our communities can tell you
what our needs are.
We can also give you some leads
about things that work.
We really need to have
a racial record
of how this-- how people
are affected in our country,
so we can track how everyone
in our society is affected,
again, in this Holy Week.
Happy Easter to you.
PENCE: Thank you, Madam Speaker.
JEFFRIES: Thank you very much,
Madam Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
And we look forward
to a continued dialogue
between you,
the administration...
-Am I a bitch or what?
-JEFFRIES: ...and the caucus
-who will, again...
-PAUL: No, it was good.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
-SCHUMER: (OVER PHONE)
Good morning.
-PELOSI: How are you?
SCHUMER: Are you on your way
to the airport?
Yes, I am.
SCHUMER: Okay, we got to get
our statement done.
Just if there's a deal
while you're on the airplane.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(AIRPLANE ENGINE RUMBLING)
(AIRPLANE RATTLING)
(MUSIC FADES)
ALEXANDRA:
Okay, here we go again.
Going to pass
another trillion-dollar bill.
-STAFFER: Speaker.
-No, this is half a trillion.
ALEXANDRA:
Oh, only half a trillion.
Excuse me.
REPORTER: Today, the House gave
final congressional approval
to a 484-billion-dollar package
aimed at smaller employers
and hospitals.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
PELOSI: "Just be you,"
that's the best advice
anybody can ever give anybody
in politics.
But in your case, especially,
don't go too far to the left.
You'd have to win
the Electoral College.
We can win the Senate.
We will win and grow
our majority in the House.
But we didn't get here
in the majority by going
to the left.
And I can say that
as a left-wing
-San Francisco liberal. (LAUGHS)
-JOE BIDEN:
I'm with you. I'm with you.
Look, I say to the people,
"Why are you trying to carve up
a pie we don't even have?
Let us win, okay?
Then we can debate
how quickly we go to healthcare
for all Americans."
Okay, we all share those values.
We don't need any distrust
in that regard.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER:
And good evening on day one
of what is the Democratic
National Convention,
originally set for Milwaukee,
now being held on TV, virtually.
CREW MEMBER 1: Five, four...
Good evening. As Speaker
of the House, it is my honor
to bring you the greetings
of the Democrats of the House.
The most diverse majority
in history.
The most diverse majority
in history.
-How long is that? 4:20?
-CREW MEMBER 2: 4:20.
-I still made a couple pauses.
-CREW MEMBER 2: Yeah.
That is the guiding purpose
of House Democrats
fighting for the people.
Who is standing in the way?
Mitch McConnell
and Donald Trump.
REPORTER:
Will you commit here today
to making sure that there
is a peaceful transferal
of power after the election?
Well, we're going to have
to see what happens.
You know
that I've been complaining
very strongly about the ballots.
And the ballots are a disaster.
-REPORTER:
Do you commit to making sure...
-Oh, I know.
-REPORTER:
...that there's a peaceful...
-Now, we want to...
-REPORTER:
...transferal of power?
-We wanna have--
Get rid of the ballots,
and you'll have a very trans--
We'll have a very peaceful--
There won't be a transfer,
frankly.
There'll be a continuation.
PELOSI: He's trying to say
he's not gonna count the votes.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
This guy should be in jail.
I mean, he is encouraging
illegal behavior
in every possible way.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
ALEXANDRA:
How are you feeling, Mimi?
-Come on. Game day.
-I feel good.
I think Joe Biden's
going to be president.
If that doesn't happen,
I told my staff
at the Capitol, at the DCCC,
"If Trump wins tonight,
you're never going to see me
again. I'm out of here."
BIDEN: We knew because of the
unprecedented early vote
and the mail-in vote,
that it's going to take a while.
Keep the faith, guys.
We're going to win this.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-ALEXANDRA:
It's good that he came over.
-Patience is great.
-NANCY:
-ALEXANDRA: He does.
He looks better tonight...
Uh, no matter what stunts
Trump may try to play,
but the Congress
has important power
when it comes to the election
of the president
and the election of Congress.
So, we're ready
for hard ball on that.
This is a fraud
on the American public.
This is an embarrassment
to our country.
We were getting ready
to win this election.
Frankly, we did win
this election.
We did win this election.
(AUDIENCE CHEERS)
NEWS ANCHOR:
It's now down to 515,000
outstanding votes in Arizona.
COMMENTATOR: You know, we got
a relatively small tranche
-of votes earlier tonight...
-PAUL: There you go, baby.
-...that we might not know...
-What's that, hon?
-What is it?
-...until Friday.
They're gonna do--
We might not get the results
-of all of this, Annie.
-Just towels.
(CHRISTINE PELOSI
AND ALEXANDRA LAUGHING)
ALEXANDRA: That's just
what she needed right now.
Look at Georgia, 12 to 27.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV)
ALEXANDRA: I'm so glad you got
some election night dish towels.
So you're still confident
that Joe Biden's going
to be president?
-CHRISTINE: Of course.
-What are you screaming
-at me for?
-ALEXANDRA: (SCOFFS)
'Cause that's what I do.
(SCOFFS)
Yes, I'm absolutely confident
-that Joe Biden--
-CHRISTINE: Positive.
Yes.
-Yes, I'm confident--
-CHRISTINE: Dude,
it's as plain
as the mask on my face.
ALEXANDRA:
What were you saying, Mimi?
I said, yes, I am confident
that Joe Biden
will be president
of the United States.
He will be inaugurated
on January 20th, 2021.
Let's hope
it will be effort time
of peaceful transition.
If you count the legal votes,
I easily win.
If you count the illegal votes,
they can try to steal
the election from us.
If you count the votes
that came in late,
we're looking
at them very strongly.
-Oh, I can't stand him.
-Historic numbers.
-STAFFER: He said if you count
the legal votes, he won.
-And the votes have got it
knowingly wrong.
-They got it knowingly wrong.
-He's a nut.
And this is a case where
they're trying to steal
an election. They're trying
to rig an election.
There's been
a lot of shenanigans,
and we can't stand for that
in our country.
Thank you very much.
PELOSI: He's sick. He's insane.
He's totally insane.
It's really a sad thing.
(CROWD CHEERING)
NEWS ANCHOR: CNN projects
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
is elected the 46th President
of the United States,
winning the White House
and denying
President Trump a second term.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER 1:
Congress is getting ready
to count the electoral votes,
which will, of course,
confirm Joe Biden's victory.
REPORTER 2:
At this hour, election results
still rolling in
from those Senate runoff races
in Georgia.
All of this,
as pro-Trump protesters
gather in Washington
for rallies.
JEFFRIES:
PELOSI: Thank you very much,
Mr. Chairman.
When we say, "Good morning,"
it really is one today.
'Cause we're gonna have
two new senators,
no question about that.
I think that this victory
not only changes the dynamic
in the Senate,
but it changes the dynamic
in our country.
-STAFFER: Here you go.
-PELOSI: Thank you.
STAFFER: Oh, my God.
There's so many of them.
-(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
-(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
JAMIE RASKIN:
Today is a sacred day
for our democracy
as we mark
the peaceful transfer of power.
The Constitution gives us
a very specific role today.
We are there for one purpose,
and one purpose only,
to count the votes.
That is our role.
That is the beauty of these
mahogany boxes
that are being brought
over from the Senate.
They are the repository
of the certificates
sent by the governors,
which embody
the will of the people.
You're in the game.
This is it, you know?
And we have to be ready
in a timely fashion,
and the more quickly
we can have the votes,
the more quickly
we can designate Joe Biden
to Kamala Harris, president
and vice president
of the United States.
I just want to say this
and close in this way.
Today is the feast
of the Epiphany, January 6th.
Visit of the Magi,
the rest of the world
seeing the birth of Christ
and that.
Let us pray,
in any way that you do,
for our country.
And that today
will be an epiphany
for the American people
as they see the difference
between our respect
for the oath we take
versus what they're up to.
And let us hope that
they will see the light
and have their own epiphany
on the other side.
(CROWD CHEERING OVER TVS)
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome
the 45th President
of the United States of America,
President Donald J. Trump.
("GOD BLESS THE U.S.A."
BY LEE GREENWOOD
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
Where at least I know
I'm free
And I won't forget...
TRUMP: Hundreds of thousands
of American patriots
are committed to the honesty
of our elections
and the integrity
of our glorious republic.
All of us here today do not want
to see our election victory
stolen by emboldened,
radical-left Democrats,
which is what they're doing.
And stolen
by the fake-news media.
That's what they've done
and what they're doing.
We will never give up.
We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.
You don't concede
when there's theft involved.
ALEXANDRA: It's very dangerous,
what he's doing.
He's getting all these people
to show up and protest,
"Stop the steal."
He's putting all these
crazy ideas in their head.
And after this,
we're going to walk down.
And I'll be there with you.
We're going to walk down
to the Capitol.
PELOSI:
(ALL LAUGH)
And Mike Pence is gonna have
to come through for us.
And if he doesn't,
that will be a sad day
for our country.
ALEXANDRA: They're marching up.
You can see them marching up.
TRUMP:
Our country has had enough.
We will not take it anymore.
And that's what
this is all about.
TERRI MCCULLOUGH:
They told him they don't have
the resources
to protect him here.
So, at the moment,
he is not coming.
But that could...
-DREW HAMMILL: Change.
-...change.
I hope he comes.
I want to punch him out.
-This is my moment--
-TERRI: Oh, I know.
-I would pay to see that.
-I've been waiting for this.
For trespassing
on the Capitol grounds.
I want to punch him out,
and I'm going to go to jail,
and I'm going to be happy.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
ALEXANDRA:
Look at the protesters
outside the Capitol.
PROTESTORS: (CHANTING)
USA, USA, USA, USA.
ALEXANDRA: You remember
when you were a boy
and all the protesters came
to protest
the Affordable Care Act?
PAUL VOS:
ALEXANDRA:
Okay, go get them, Mimi.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
ALEXANDRA:
EMILY: Oh, my God, how did
that guy get up there?
ALEXANDRA:
Is the Speaker balcony open?
PAUL VOS: What if they try
and run the Capitol?
(PROTESTERS CLAMORING)
(CHEERING)
PROTESTERS:
(CHANTING) USA, USA, USA.
USA, USA, USA.
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
(CHANTING) USA, USA, USA.
PAUL GOSAR: Mr. Vice President,
I, Paul Gosar,
-from Arizona's 4th Congr--
-For what purpose does
the gentleman from Arizona rise?
I rise up for myself
and 60 of my colleagues
to object to the counting
of the electoral ballots
from Arizona.
PENCE: Is the objection
in writing and signed
by a senator?
-PAUL GOSAR: Yes, it is.
-CONGRESS MEMBER: It is.
PENCE:
The two houses will withdraw
from joint session.
Each house
will deliberate separately
on the pending objection
and report its decision
back to the joint session.
The Senate will now retire
to its chamber.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
PROTESTERS: (CHANTING
IN DISTANCE) USA, USA, USA.
USA, USA, USA, USA.
The voters...
the courts...
and the states...
have all spoken.
If we overrule them...
it would damage our republic...
forever.
-(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
-(HORNS BLARING)
(THUDDING AGAINST GLASS)
-(GLASS SHATTERS)
-(THUDDING CONTINUES)
You're our fucking brothers!
Wake the fuck up.
(THUDDING CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
Rioters, see you at the top.
RIOTER 1: Go, go, go.
RIOTER 2:
Watch out. Watch out.
RIOTER 3: Fuck you, police.
(CLAMOR CONTINUES)
We're breaking the windows.
RIOTER 4:
This is our country.
RIOTER 5:
(SECURITY ALARM BEEPING RAPIDLY)
-(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
-(GLASS SHATTERING)
-RIOTER 6: Let's go!
-Our house!
SECURITY GUARD:
Get down. Get down.
-STAFFER 1: Hurry up.
-SECURITY GUARD:
Get back down. Get back down.
STAFFER 2:
Full lockdown drill--
STAFFER 3:
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
PELOSI:
-STAFFER:
-PELOSI: How much longer then?
STAFFER: Terri, go with her.
PELOSI:
TERRI:
PELOSI:
TERRI:
-PELOSI:
-TERRI:
RIOTER 1:
RIOTER 2:
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
SECURITY GUARD:
I'll be making a call,
head south.
-We're going in there.
-STAFFER: Okay.
RIOTER 1:
RIOTER 2:
PELOSI:
RIOTER:
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
RIOTER:
PELOSI:
RIOTER 1: Holy shit.
RIOTERS: (CHANTING)
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, Nancy.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
RIOTER 1: Holy shit.
RIOTER 2:
We've paid for everything.
Fuck these people.
RIOTERS: (CHANTING)
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy.
RIOTER 3:
RIOTER 4:
RIOTER 5:
Hey, hey, anybody want
Nancy's fucking boxing gloves?
Hey, hey, dude, you want Nancy's
pink boxing gloves?
RIOTER 6:
I'm not turning my phone off.
I want them to know I was here.
This is my house, my country.
-RIOTER 7: Fuck Nancy Pelosi!
-RIOTERS: Fuck Nancy Pelosi!
PELOSI:
We're here until what?
Until the National Guard decides
to come
and get rid of these people?
(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)
RIOTER 1:
RIOTER 2:
Where the fuck are they?
Hey, let's take a seat, people.
RIOTER 3:
-RIOTER 2:
Let's vote on some shit!
-RIOTER 3:
RIOTER 1:
RIOTER 2: Yeah!
(SIRENS WAILING)
PELOSI: There has to be some way
we can maintain
the sense that people have
that there's some security
or some confidence...
that government can function.
And that we can elect
the President
of the United States.
Did we go back into session?
TERRI:
We did go back into session,
but now apparently everybody
on the floor
is putting on tear gas masks
to prepare for a breach.
SCHUMER:
-PELOSI:
-STAFFER: Yeah.
SCHUMER: Let me see.
-STAFFER: Where are you?
-SCHUMER:
There's a picture
of someone sitting
-in the chair of the Senate.
-STAFFER:
There've been shots fired--
SCHUMER:
We've all been evacuated.
-There's been shots fired.
-STAFFER: Shots fired--
SCHUMER: We need
a full National Guard
component now.
We have some senators
who are still
in their hideaways.
They need massive personnel now.
Can you get
the Maryland National Guard
-to come, too?
-RYAN MCCARTHY: Yes, sir.
-Look at this.
-SCHUMER: Okay.
(PROTESTERS CLAMORING OVER TV)
Oh, my God.
They're just breaking windows.
They're doing all--
It's just horrendous.
And all at the instigation
of the President
of the United States.
Okay. Thank you, Governor.
SCHUMER: Virginia Guard
has been called in.
You know, I'm just talking
to Governor Northam.
And what he said is,
they sent 200 state police
and a unit
-of the National Guard.
-REPORTER: (OVER TV)
...the United States
debating in the House,
debating in the Senate.
And all of a sudden, John,
we're told there's not...
SCHUMER: Okay, let's get him.
REPORTER:
But all these senators,
including the Vice President
of the United States,
they've been evacuated on...
Personal safety is--
it has-- transcends everything.
But the fact is,
on any given day,
they're breaking the law
in many different ways.
And quite frankly, much of it
at the instigation
of the President
of the United States.
SCHUMER: Yeah, why don't you
get the President
to tell them to leave
the Capitol,
Mr. Attorney General,
in your law enforcement
responsibility?
A public statement
they should all leave.
JEFFREY ROSEN:
We're treating this
with the greatest--
SCHUMER:
Will you ask the President
to make a statement
to ask them to leave
the Capitol?
ROSEN:
So, as you might guess,
we're coordinating this quickly
-and as--
-SCHUMER: No, no, no.
Please answer my question.
Answer my question.
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
RIOTER 1: Move out.
-RIOTER 2: Move out!
-RIOTER 3: Get back! Come on!
MITCH MCCONNELL:
CHRISTOPHER MILLER:
Yes, I got you
loud and clear, Leader.
SCHUMER: This cannot be just,
"We're waiting for so-and-so."
We need them there now,
whoever you got.
PELOSI:
EMILY: I'm handing the phone.
Hi, Mr. Vice President?
Hi. Yeah, we're okay.
We're here with Mr. Schumer,
Mr. McConnell, the leadership,
House and Senate.
And how are you?
Oh, my goodness. Where are you?
God bless you.
But are you in a very safe--
Well, we are still not safe
enough for us to go back.
We're being told
it could take days
to clear the Capitol
and that we should be moving
everyone here
to get the job done.
We're at Fort McNair
which has facilities
for the House
and the Senate to meet.
We'd rather go to the Capitol
and do it there,
but it doesn't seem to be safe.
Okay. And then call us back.
Okay, I worry about you
being in that Capitol, though.
Don't let anybody know
where you are.
This was a fraudulent election,
but we can't play
into the hands of these people.
We have to have peace.
So, go home. We love you.
You're very special.
SCHUMER:
So, we shouldn't let him
off the hook, Nancy.
We issued a statement saying,
he's got to make a statement,
he comes up with this BS.
PELOSI:
Oh yeah.
PELOSI:
(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
SCHUMER: Do you think
we could get to the Capitol
by 9:00, 10:00 tonight
and finish this?
MCCARTHY: Senator, I can't give
an answer on how long
it's going to clear out
or how many people are inside.
So it's a really
complex operation
we're going to have to conduct
to get to the inside
-and--
-The sooner you can get us,
we have to make a decision
whether to go back
to the Capitol if it's safe,
which we prefer,
or do it here
if it's not gonna be safe
for a couple of days.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
RIOTERS: Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!
Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!
Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!
RIOTER: Finish it! Finish it!
Finish it!
(SIRENS WAILING)
PENCE: Madam Speaker,
I'm at the Capitol building.
I'm literally standing
with the chief
of the US Capitol Police.
He just informed me
their best information
is that they believe
that the House and the Senate
will be able to reconvene
in roughly an hour.
SCHUMER: Good news.
PAUL IRVING:
We're gonna have to keep
certain areas around the Chamber
off limits
because they're basically
gonna be a crime scene.
There's blood outside, you know,
the lobby on one side
by the parliamentarian.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SIRENS BLARING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI:
(MUSIC FADES)
PELOSI:
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
CHEER, APPLAUD)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI:
STAFFER 1:
Careful, it's slippery.
Careful, it's slippery.
It's slippery.
-STAFFER 2: It's slippery.
-STAFFER 1: Oh, my God.
ALEXANDRA: They took the sign.
STAFFER 2:
Oh, they took the sign.
-(MUSIC FADES)
-ALEXANDRA: They took the sign.
PELOSI:
ALEXANDRA: Yeah.
PELOSI:
EMILY: Speaker,
you need to be really careful
in here 'cause...
PELOSI: Oh no, you shouldn't
have touched any glass.
-That's not up to you.
-EMILY: Well, we...
DREW: There's nobody else
to do it.
-So we had to do it.
-PELOSI: No. There's
security people,
the cleaners who come.
DREW: Well, they're busy
getting the Chamber cleaned, so.
EMILY: Your blue bag, we just
don't know, your blue bag,
all of the contents
were just thrown on your couch
from the blue bag.
-The blue bag's gone, but...
-PELOSI:
There was nothing in it.
-EMILY: And...
-DREW: And your leather bag,
they've secured
in the Sergeant-at-Arms' office.
-EMILY: Yeah.
-DREW: Your big leather bag.
EMILY:
They didn't know if anything
was in there, so they took it.
-PELOSI:
-DREW: Ma'am, I--
-I'm totally fine.
-PELOSI: No, but...
I mean, none of this matters
at the end of it all, anyway.
-EMILY:
No, no, we don't. We just...
-DREW: It's good.
We're just tidying up, you know?
PELOSI:
EMILY: They're very--
PELOSI:
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
STAFFER 1:
RIOTERS: Fuck Nancy Pelosi.
RIOTERS: Fuck Chuck Schumer!
-RIOTER 1: Fuck Mitt Romney!
-RIOTER 2: Let's go!
RIOTERS: (CHANTING)
Our house! Whose house?
Our house! Whose house?
Our house! Whose house?
(RIOTERS CONTINUE CHANTING)
(MUSIC FADES)
SCHUMER: It is very,
very difficult to put into words
what has transpired today.
I have never lived through
or even imagined
the experience like the one
we have just witnessed
in this Capitol.
President Franklin Roosevelt
set aside December 7th, 1941
as a day that will live
in infamy.
Unfortunately, we can now
add January 6th, 2021
to that very short list of dates
in American history
that will live forever
in infamy.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
PELOSI: We know
that we're in difficult times.
But little
could we have imagined
the assault that was made
on our democracy today.
To those who engaged
in the gleeful desecration
of this--
our temple of democracy,
American democracy,
justice will be done.
We must
and we will show to the country,
and indeed to the world,
that we will not be diverted
from our duty.
That we will respect
our responsibility
to the Constitution
and to the American people.
We always knew
that this responsibility
would take us into the night,
and we will stay
as long as it takes.
PENCE: Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
of the State of Delaware
has received 306 votes.
Donald J. Trump
of the State of Florida
has received 232 votes.
The announcement
of the state of the vote
by the President of the Senate
shall be deemed
a sufficient declaration.
PELOSI:
Um, the security, I think--
that will be a subject
of review.
But, right now,
we have to stop this man,
the insurrectionist
in the White House.
What do you think?
JAMES CLYBURN:
and there may not be
enough time.
But there is enough time,
and it's rather simple,
to tag him
with the uniqueness
of a second impeachment.
He's looking
for a unique niche in life,
being the first president
ever impeached twice.
PELOSI: And to put some kind
of a freeze on him,
because we don't know
what he will do next.
CLYBURN: That's exactly right.
PELOSI: So, they got through
into this room?
-STAFFER: Yes, ma'am, they did--
-ALISA LA:
Yeah, you look on the left,
that whole door's broken.
-PELOSI: They broke the door.
-ALEXANDRA: Right, they broke
the door, but
they didn't break that one.
PELOSI:
No, and the kids were in there.
-STAFFER: Under the table.
-ALISA: Under the table.
-It's very messy in there.
-PELOSI: That's okay.
ALISA:
I think we have it locked.
-Sorry.
-PELOSI:
So it's very messy in there.
Did they had to hide
under the table
-for almost three hours?
-ALISA: Two and a half.
-PELOSI: Two and a half hours.
-ALISA: And then just in the...
-PELOSI: And they were here.
-ALISA: Guard.
And were they banging
on this door?
PAUL VOS: Were you one of them?
-ALISA: Yeah.
-PAUL VOS: Yeah, wow.
PELOSI: Were they--
Were they-- Do they know
people were in there?
ALISA:
So we turned off all the lights,
we hid under the table,
and no talking. So,
we just said, "Do not speak."
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PELOSI: We are in a very
difficult place in our country
as long as Donald Trump
still sits in the White House.
By inciting sedition
as he did yesterday,
a threshold was crossed
of such magnitude
that there is no way
that this president
should be allowed
to make any decision.
He must be removed from office.
We are a country of law.
We are not a monarchy
with a king.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
HOUSE CLERK:
Article of impeachment exhibit
by the House of Representatives
of the United States of America
against Donald John Trump,
president
of the United States of America,
in maintenance and support
of its impeachment
against him for high crimes
and misdemeanors.
Article One,
incitement of insurrection.
PELOSI:
The President must be impeached.
And I believe
the President
must be convicted by the Senate,
a constitutional remedy
that will ensure
that the republic will be safe
from this man
who was so resolutely determined
to tear down the things
that we hold dear
and that hold us together.
Let us be worthy of our power
and responsibility,
that what Lincoln thought
was the world's last best hope,
the United States of America,
may long survive.
This is absolutely essential.
I'm so proud of my members
because one week ago,
we had no idea
about impeachment.
We thought it'd be a calm day,
a little contentious,
to ascertain the president--
who the president would be.
We didn't think it would be
an assault on our democracy.
And so in that period of time,
we have drawn up the article
of impeachment
and now passed it
in a bipartisan way.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PELOSI: On this vote, the ayes
are 232, the nays are 197.
The resolution is adopted
without objection.
The motion to reconsider
is laid upon the table.
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
REPORTER 1:
REPORTER 2:
ALISA: We'll come here first.
(METAL DETECTOR BEEPING)
ALISA: And then
take that elevator over here.
(VACUUM WHIRRING LOUDLY)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(GLASS CRUNCHING)
(SIRENS BLARING)
BIDEN: This is America's day.
We've learned again
that democracy is precious.
Democracy is fragile.
And at this hour, my friends,
democracy has prevailed.
For now,
on this hallowed ground,
where just a few days ago
violence sought to shake
the Capitol's very foundation,
we come together as one nation,
under God, indivisible,
to carry out the peaceful
transfer of power,
as we have for more
than two centuries.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
-(SIRENS BLARING)
-(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
ALEXANDRA:
It's over. How do you feel?
PELOSI: I feel as if
an anvil has been lifted
from my shoulders.
ALEXANDRA: How do you
make peace with the fact
that because of your work,
people wanna kill you?
PELOSI: Being Speaker
makes you a target.
A target of misinformation,
a target of mockery,
and sometimes a target
of violence.
This is not for the faint
of heart.
I always tell this story.
It was posted on a hospital
in Africa.
And it said,
"When one day I die
and happily go to meet my maker
and I go before him,
he will say to me,
'Show me your wounds.
Show me your wounds.'
And if I have no wounds
to show him, he will say,
'Was nothing
worth fighting for?'"
And I'm proud of my wounds.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(ROUSING
VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
REPORTER 1: Are you staying
in leadership, Madam Speaker?
REPORTER 2: What's on
your mind today, Speaker Pelosi?
REPORTER 3: Have you spoken
to any of your deputies?
REPORTER 4: When will you speak
on the floor, Madam Speaker?
(FOOTSTEPS ADVANCING)
REPORTER 5: How will you prepare
for your speech today,
Madam Speaker?
REPORTER 6: Have you told anyone
about your plans?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
PELOSI: Scripture teaches us
that for everything
there is a season.
A time for every purpose
under heaven.
My friends, no matter
what title you all,
my colleagues,
have bestowed upon me,
Speaker, Leader, Whip,
there is no greater
official honor for me
than to stand on this floor
and to speak
for the people of San Francisco.
And with great confidence
in our caucus,
I will not seek reelection
to Democratic leadership
in the next Congress.
For me, the hour has come
for a new generation
to lead the Democratic caucus
that I so deeply respect.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
PELOSI: A new day
is dawning on the horizon
and I look forward,
always forward,
to the unfolding story
of our nation.
A story of light and love,
of patriotism and progress,
of many becoming one,
and always an unfinished mission
to make the dreams of today,
the reality of tomorrow.
Thank you all, may God bless
you and your families,
and may God continue
to bless our veterans
and the United States
of America.
(CONGRESS MEMBERS
APPLAUDING AND CHEERING)
-(APPLAUDING AND CHEERING FADE)
-(MUSIC FADES)